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If I were a Japanese music producer I’d want to look like this dude.
Via Flomotion (which I highly recommend by the way)

I’m neither a massive Beatles fan nor an Apple fan boy but Apple’s announcement yesterday was beautifully done. This stunning (and rare?) photograph was majestically displayed on iTunes and Apple.com home page. Less than 24 hours later, there are no less than 47 Beatles songs in the iTunes chart (thanks to Mark Headley for this stat) and they’re even running Google Ads with the graceful copy ‘John, Paul, George and Ringo. All together now’.

The Beatles, Twickenham, Middlesex, 9th April 1969
Credit: Photo by Bruce McBroom / ©Apple Corps Ltd

Folk Ibiza various mixes (download them all, because they’re awesome) here
Phil Mison, Test Pressin (1hr) here

Friends of Folk Ibiza :

DJ Sergio, recorded in Ibiza July 2010 (1hr) here
Moonboots, recorded for Last Night A DJ Saved My Life here
[please note: this is NOT Cafe Del Mar coffee table rubbish]

Just read on Mobile Entertainment that Shazam’s CEO Andrew Fisher announced at Midem yesterday that Shazam users are buying 300K songs per day. Pretty interesting to hear these figures.  If you assume that Shazam get an iTunes kick back of somewhere between 4-7% of the 79p purchase price (they may have negotiated slightly more with Apple – but there’s not much margin to go round) then this would equate to annual gross revenues of between £3.4m-£6m. Shazam recently introduced advertising and I believe they also have some B2B revenue streams so the revenue estimate suggested here is likely to be on the lower end of their real revenues.

Shazam announced at the end of 2009 hitting 20m users. So if you take this gross revenue range then this equates to an ARPU of between £0.17-£0.34.

well, everyone thought the RIAA or majors took them down. Not exactly, but sort of.
Full story here